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Which extraembryonic membrane in humans prevents desiccation of the embryo inside the uterus?

  • Chorion

  • Allantois

  • Yolk sac

  • Yolk sac


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Yolk sac

Amnion is an extraembryonic membrane that surrounds embryo in reptiles, birds and mammals. It provides a kind of private aquarium to the embryo and protects it from mechanical shock and desiccation.

Chorion (serosa) is the outermost extraembryonic membrane in reptiles, birds and mammals. It surrounds the whole embryonic system of the embryo.

Yolk sac contains yolk in reptiles and birds. In mammals yolk, the sac is also known as a umnillical vesicle. It is connected to enter on of the embryo by a slender yolk stalk.

Allantois functions as an embryonic urinary bladder or as a respiratory extension of a handgun in reptiles and birds. In mammals, it is modified to carry blood vessel to and from the placenta.

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Seminal plasma in human is rich in 

  • fructose, calcium and certain enzymes

  • fructose and calcium but has no enzymes

  • glucose and certain enzymes but has no calcium

  • glucose and certain enzymes but has no calcium


The correct sequence of spermatogenetic stages leading to the formation of sperms in mature human testis is

  • spermatocyte-spermatoogonia-spermatid-sperms

  • spermatogonia-spermatocyte-spermatid

  • spermatid-spermatocyte-spermatogonia-sperms,

  • spermatid-spermatocyte-spermatogonia-sperms,


In human adult females, oxytocin

  • is secreted by the anterior pituitary

  • stimulates the growth of mammary glands

  • stimulates pituitary to secrete vasopressin

  • stimulates pituitary to secrete vasopressin


In humans, at the end of the first meiotic division, the male germ cells differentiate into the

  • Primary spermatocytes

  • Secondary spermatocytes

  • spermatids

  • spermatids


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